Police investigate stabbing deaths of elderly couple

The homicide squad is investigating the stabbing deaths of two people at Hallam in Melbourne's east.

A man and a woman aged in their seventies were attacked in their home in Pauline Court.

It is the eigth stabbing in Melbourne in the past two weeks.

Paramedic David Llewellyn says ambulance officers worked for 40 minutes to try and resuscitate the couple.

"Paramedics and intensive care unit officers frantically tried to revive them, but their injuries were so severe that wasn't the case so unfortunately they're deceased at the scene and homicide are investigating from now on in," he said.